This paper aims at demonstrating the evolution of the sugarcane industry in the Central-
Northern region of Brazil, specially the state of Goiás, including the area towards Tocantins.
By means of a drill-down description of this industry in Brazil, this paper intends to
demonstrate how important, vast and full of potential sugarcane is becoming in the states
where it’s present. By means of a thorough description of the State of Goiás, along with an
analysis based on theories regarding the exiting studies on the agro-industrial facilities that
have been originated from the commodity system approach readers will eventually understand
the evolution of the sugarcane market in the Central Northern region of the country, assessing
the indicators of the sugarcane productive chain. Quantitative models are applied in the
assessment of those indicators: first, the factorial analysis of the main components, in an
attempt to reduce the number of variables used in multiple regression; while the latter
demonstrates how such variables have induced the evolution of this sector during the studied
period. The analysis of these indicators and characteristics of the sector will enable the
identification of how the sugarcane agro-industry complex’s being evolved in Goiás; from
that point it will be possible to assess the potential of the state of Tocantins, the characteristics
of which are very similar to those of Goiás. With that said, the exploratory nature of this study
is clearly stated, especially regarding the expansion of the sugarcane industry throughout the
Brazilian Central Northern region.
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